Dunlin Press

Dunlin Press Independent publisher based in Wivenhoe, Essex. Available now: Est: Collected Reports From East Anglia and The Migrant Waders.

Dunlin Press is a new independent publishing house based in the artistic community of Wivenhoe, Essex. Its focus is emerging writers and visual artists whose work is intelligent, thought-provoking and beautiful, and which for various reasons might prove difficult to place with more established or commercial publishers. Dunlin Press aims to publish works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, photo-es

says, illustration and more. Its first book, set to be published towards the end of 2014, is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and psychogeography from and about East Anglia. Dunlin Press is operating as a not-for-profit enterprise.

Look how the lights are glimmering,the playfulness of branches dancing and the water again,the difficult ice dripping in...
19/12/2025

Look how the lights are glimmering,
the playfulness of branches dancing and the water again,
the difficult ice dripping in the sun.

It is a shadow along a road, a walking shadow of us all,
the sorrowful existence of shrubbery,
broaching a story at a certain point,
as things begin to come together,
claiming the opposite.

If Any Thing Was Ever Done is a multi-faceted clash of poetry, prose poems, broken text, sketches of memoir, personal notes, journalism and photography.

The text reverberates with recollections of rural north Essex and the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, Sheffield, London and Glasgow. Via interviews with the musicians Raphael Roginski and Michelle Moeller we are also taken to eastern Europe and California – to explore contrasting creative traditions. The text gets lost in place, and loses its place, and sees the loss of centre as a positive force for both language and the personal – and writing as a process not of claiming but of giving away.

16/12/2025

MW Bewick reads an extract from If Any Thing Was Ever Done. Available to buy via our Big Cartel shop see link in bio.

There are other things to say,other people, other places.And round here the houses go up cheaply,do their thing, like al...
15/12/2025

There are other things to say,
other people, other places.
And round here the houses go up cheaply,
do their thing, like all, for a while,
eventually fall apart.

The mood of MW Bewick’s If Any Thing Was Ever Done, whether the focus is on the creative process, place, class, film or music, is definitely of everything being enacted in our present-day period of neoliberal late capitalism.
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Anchois in Collioure.*****
14/12/2025

Anchois in Collioure.
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Infinite thoughts as we wind up the year. Southend 2025.*****
11/12/2025

Infinite thoughts as we wind up the year. Southend 2025.
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No post today, Southwark 2025.***** #
11/12/2025

No post today, Southwark 2025.
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Me and Ella, together like Spandau Balletthrough the barricadesnorth and south and east and westnot knowing what we want...
09/12/2025

Me and Ella, together like Spandau Ballet
through the barricades
north and south and east and west
not knowing what we wanted or how we would get it.

This is our love letter
the billets-doux of basic bi***es.

Aside from the nods to cultural criticism and reflections on the relationship between class and artistic/literary production, If Any Thing Was Ever Done is also a story about the creative partnership between MW Bewick and Ella Johnston , co-founders of Dunlin Press.

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08/12/2025

Another short film of reading from his new book If Any Thing Was Ever Done. Out now available at our big cartel shop see link in bio.

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Everything is cleaned up in time.“What is left after pop culture and the witty deprecation of modern life?”Side partings...
04/12/2025

Everything is cleaned up in time.

“What is left after pop culture and the witty deprecation of modern life?”

Side partings and floaty dresses, floral prints and beards. 
In the office someone says it’s a race to the bottom
or at least to the end of late-period capitalism.
It’s radical stuff from the mouth of a colleague but

the neighbour’s lawnmower is roaring again 
as it chomps away at the season.
Autumn can’t come soon enough.

Perhaps a key idea in MW Bewick’s If Any Thing Was Ever Done is that the organising, cleaning, tidying, polishing and ordering of creative outputs might be reductive, or perhaps even represent a fiction or a lie. Trends are imposed to make artistic production fit market forces, but this cleaning up is at odds with the messiness and shonkiness of reality.  

If Any Thing Was Ever Done by MW Bewick out now available at our big cartel shop, see bio

03/12/2025

MW Bewick reads an extract from If Any Thing Was Ever Done as the trains and buses come in.

If Any Thing Was Ever Done gets its title from a line in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. MW Bewick’s hybrid text – poems, broken prose, prose poems, notes, journalism, photography – confronts the artistic process head on to become a piece of writing that is performative of its own creation. It asks: ‘How do we know when we’ve said what needed to be said?’; ‘How do we construct a voice that is true to ourselves?’; ‘How do we know when we’re finished?’ And that’s where the da Vinci quote comes in…

The rambling text of If Any Thing Was Ever Done oscillates intermittently between rural north Essex and the coast of the...
02/12/2025

The rambling text of If Any Thing Was Ever Done oscillates intermittently between rural north Essex and the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, with visits to Sheffield, London and Glasgow. Via two interviews with renowned musicians we are also taken to California and Poland. The text gets lost in place, and loses its place, and sees the loss of centre as a positive force for both language and the personal – and writing as a process not of claiming but of giving away.
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In the polyphonies and dialogisms, and the stress-testing of ‘standard diction’ (if that is even a thing) of If Any Thin...
01/12/2025

In the polyphonies and dialogisms, and the stress-testing of ‘standard diction’ (if that is even a thing) of If Any Thing Was Ever Done, MW Bewick finds space for some Cumbrian dialect – ’Yan, tan, tethera… dick’ being the Cumbrian fell-farmer version of the numbering system used across northern England to count sheep.

If Any Thing Was Ever Done by MW Bewick out now available at our big cartel shop, link in bio

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Dunlin Press is an independent publishing house based in the artistic community of Wivenhoe, Essex. Its focus is emerging writers and visual artists whose work is intelligent, thought-provoking and beautiful, and which for various reasons might prove difficult to place with more established or commercial publishers. Dunlin Press publishes works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, photo-essays, illustration and more.